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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

With regard to the last of these points, it is worth considering the criticisms of the concept of social capital, which is often used in conjunction with community-based DRR (Haynes 2009, Inaba 2013). But how does this translate into community resilience? I need not repeat them here. It may be therapeutic or it may be dysfunctional.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

It’s through the strategy and policy produced by elected officials, that administrative professionals translate, create context for, and craft these campaign promises into actual deliverable results to the publics and constituencies. Image: Wikipedia. Public Administration Review,72 (4), 526-535. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02551.x.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

19 This support was translated into extreme lobbying power in Congress, which ensured that the two companies did not lose the subsidies. 5] This was the policy of the FHFA when it was under the control of Acting Director Edward Demarco (2009 to very early 2014). In this paper, I will utilize this economic G-fee, i.e., 0.46

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